Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language.

We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.

Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.

It can even come about that a created will cancels out, not perhaps the exertion, but the result of divine action; for in this sense, God himself has told us that God wishes things which do not happen because man does not wish them! Thus the rights of men are immense, and his greatest misfortune is to be unaware of them.

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

Prejudice does not mean false ideas, but only ... opinions adopted before examination.